Tag: Congress

Before the dust settled on the news that the Obama Administration was delaying the intrusive employer mandate until 2015, a new 606-page regulation was issued on Friday by the Department of Health and Human Services stating it would now rely

Democrats and activist groups on the left used the Washington Post‘s Greg Sargent to publicly circulate a target list of House Republicans whom Democrats plan to pressure to try to get the Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration bill or something

Should JPMorgan Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon be the next Fed Chairman? Federal bankrRegulators just published the latest “draft” bank capital guidelines for US depository institutions, aka “Basel III.” You don’t need to know the details; just know that consumers

Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) told Breitbart News he is confident House Republicans as a whole will stop the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, and take up an alternative aimed at securing the border before handling anything else. “I can’t

Now that the Senate has passed its amnesty legislation, attention turns next to the House, which returns Monday for three weeks of work before the month-long August recess. Supporters of the Senate bill had hoped action on the issue in

(AP) Immigration, student loan top congressional agendaBy DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTONRepublicans and Democrats will put good will to the test when Congress returns this week to potentially incendiary fights over nominations, unresolved disputes over student loans and the farm bill, and

It was another busy week in the Lawless Fiefdom of President Barack Obama.  Just before the Independence Day four-day weekend–as President Obama and his White House stenographer reporter pool were on a 20-hour flight back from Africa–We the Subjects were handed down:

Police arrested the Mitchell family in Nevada when the family refused to let the police take over their houses to observe the Mitchells’ neighbors. The Mitchells have sued the City of Henderson and various police officials, claiming among other things

Just two years ago, former Rep. Anthony Weiner was forced to resign from Congress after lying to the press and public about tweeting illicit photos of himself. Today, however, he is waging an improbably competitive race for mayor of New

On Sunday, Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID), an immigration reform advocate in the House of Representatives, said that the Republicans had to do immigration reform right, or it wouldn’t be worth doing. “If we don’t do it right politically,” he said

(AP) Bush sees Congress making progress on immigrationWASHINGTONFormer President George W. Bush says it looks like an immigration overhaul has a chance to pass Congress and he says its’ important to fix “a broken system.” The Senate has passed legislation

On Tuesday, William W. Taylor III, attorney for Lois Lerner, the IRS official at the center of the Tea Party targeting scandal who invoked her Fifth amendment rights before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on May 22, set

(AP) Furloughs begin for Defense Department civiliansBy LOLITA C. BALDORAssociated PressWASHINGTONMore than 650,000 civilian Defense Department workers will begin taking the first of their 11 unpaid days off next week, but the cut in salary they will see in the

While most Americans rank the economy and government spending as the top challenges facing the nation, the Senate last month rushed through a comprehensive immigration bill to give amnesty to 11 million illegal aliens. The effort was more about the

According to a newly-revised estimate of the immigration reform bill passed by the Senate from the Congressional Budget Office, the bill will cost more money while only minimally preventing more border crossers. According to the CBO, the Corker-Hoeven amendment, which

Much of the D.C. brain trust has concluded that the IRS targeting scandal doesn’t need a special counsel to do the investigating. The folks who are against the appointment of a special counsel, for whatever reason, are happy to allow

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is revving up an effort to regain credibility among conservatives after his popularity took a nosedive over his stance on immigration reform, The Hill reports. Senate Republicans are aiding Rubio’s rehabilitation by allowing him to be